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Place dossier plate
SheetCO-SILVER-CLIFF-CO · Silver Cliff, CO 783 pop · income 3rd pct · 2 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Silver Cliff
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Silver Cliff on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gibsland · lowest
20,915
Gibsland · lowest
20,915 median HH income
12.1% of the leader · rank #1
Silver Cliff · this city
32,083
Silver Cliff · this city
32,083 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #2
Erskine · near
32,083
Erskine · near
32,083 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #3
Winona · near
32,083
Winona · near
32,083 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #4
Red Boiling S… · near
32,083
Red Boiling S… · near
32,083 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #5
Readstown · near
32,083
Readstown · near
32,083 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #6
Paragon Estat… · highest
172,625
Paragon Estat… · highest
172,625 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Silver Cliff on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 783.
Nationally, Silver Cliff sits in the 3rd percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
3rd
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
68th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Silver Cliff, CO
Silver Cliff is a small town in Colorado, home to 783 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Silver Cliff households earn a median of $32,083 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 17.1%. Typical homes in Silver Cliff are valued around $261,100, and the median resident age is 39.5 years. About 14.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 40.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 12 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 71% from five years earlier.
Colorado carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Colorado scores 103.1 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,429 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Colorado's average monthly utility costs around $202 (state average). Workers in Silver Cliff report an average commute of 22.5 minutes, with 73.0% driving alone and 9.0% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 40.7 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Silver Cliff's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to housing and income to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Silver Cliff, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Silver Cliff?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Colorado, the closest population matches are Tabernash (797 residents, $121,023 income); Paragon Estates (767 residents, $172,625 income); Beulah Valley (762 residents, $52,664 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Butte Creek Canyon, CA (783 residents); Albany, IL (783 residents); Grandview, IN (783 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Is Silver Cliff growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +96 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +15.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 12 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
What does the journey to work look like in Silver Cliff?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.5 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What can 2 Census tracts reveal inside Silver Cliff?
PlainCities matches 2 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Silver Cliff?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 8.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 17.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
8.1×
Home value
$261,100
Household income
$32,083
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 17.1% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Colorado average
F
City profile score · Silver Cliff, CO
15/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living F
103.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate F
17.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$32,083
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Silver Cliff profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 26/100 (F) · 103.1 index
Poverty rate: 19/100 (F) · 17.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.2%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $32,083
How does Silver Cliff compare to other US cities?
Where Silver Cliff sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income3% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent68% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Silver Cliff against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Colorado only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Colorado-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Silver Cliff near the bottom of Colorado's cities
Among the 408 Colorado cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Silver Cliff ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Silver Cliff only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#368 of 379
3rd percentile in Colorado
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 408
0th percentile in Colorado
Median Home Value
#274 of 388
29th percentile in Colorado
Poverty Rate
#47 of 408
88th percentile in Colorado
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#353 of 408
13th percentile in Colorado
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Colorado only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
3rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Silver Cliff's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$261,10042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Silver Cliff's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,082 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,066 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 8.1×, Silver Cliff sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,082 of 15,516 and #11,066 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$32,083Silver Cliff, CO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Silver Cliff, CO median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Silver Cliff, CO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)40.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
783
Median Income
$32,083
Median Home Value
$261,100
Median Age
39.5
Poverty Rate
17.1%
Labor force participation
40.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.2%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Silver Cliff's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
617 residents
2021
656 residents
2022
690 residents
2023
708 residents
2024
708 residents
2025
713 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
12
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
15.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$1.7M
2020
8
8
0
$1.9M
2021
11
9
2
$2.1M
2022
6
6
0
$2.2M
2023
8
8
0
$1.8M
2024
12
6
6
$2.0M
Permit volume increased 71% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.5 minutes
Drive Alone
73.0%
Carpool
14.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.6%
Work from Home
9.0%
Based on 222 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Colorado statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $202
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Colorado at $202 (electricity about $90 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Colorado statewide averages, not a meter reading for Silver Cliff. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Colorado's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.1 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Silver Cliff is $1,429/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Colorado statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 40.7 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Colorado statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Silver Cliff sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Silver Cliff compares to similar-size Colorado cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.